Show:
Capulets
Montagues
Sayeth What?
Major Events
This and That
100
Who are Sampson and Gregory?
Capulet Servants, who start the fray in Act I
100
Who is Balthasar?
Romeo's Servant
100
What poetic format is the Prologue written in? What does it tell the audience
Sonnet Romeo and Juliet will die
100
After the fray that begins the play, what does Prince Escalus threaten to all Capulets and Montagues who are caught fighting again?
Death
100
What is name of the girl Romeo is in love with at the beginning of the play?
Rosaline
200
Who is the angry Capulet who is always looking for trouble, and ends up 6 feet under?
Tybalt
200
Who tries to cheer up Romeo and always seems to be looking to solve problems peacefully?
Benvolio
200
What is blank verse?
Unrhymed lines written in iambic pentameter
200
Where does Romeo meet Juliet?
Capulet Feast
200
What is unique about the first time Romeo and Juliet speak to each other, in terms of its format?
Sonnet
300
Who is the loyal servant to Juliet?
The Nurse
300
According to Montague in The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, Act V, Scene iii, what is the cause of Lady Montague's death?
Romeo's banishment
300
What is Juliet saying with the following lines:
What's in a name? That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet She's saying she wishes Romeo didn't have to be a Montague
300
Who is killed by whom in Act III?
Tybalt kills Mercutio, Romeo kills Tybalt
300
What is Friar Lawrence an expert in?
Herbs and natural medicine
400
Why does Lord Capulet propose Juliet should marry Paris?
To relieve the grief she's experiencing over Tybalt's death
400
Why does Romeo claim he loves Tybalt in Act III?
He has married Juliet, Tybalt's cousin
400
What are literary device is depicted in these lines: CAPULET. …Sirrah, go hire me twenty cunning cooks. SERVINGMAN. You shall have none ill, sir; for I'll try if they can lick their fingers. CAPULET. How canst thou try them so? SERVINGMAN. Marry, sir, 'tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers. Therefore he that cannot lick his fingers goes not with me.
Comic Relief
400
Who is supposed to bring news of Friar Lawrence's plan to Romeo? What happens?
Friar John, gets caught in a house of plague
400
Who said this:Death, that hath sucked the honey of thy breath, Hath had no power yet upon thy beauty. Thou art not conquered. Beauty's ensign yet Is crimson in thy lips and in thy cheeks, And death's pale flag is not advancèd there.
Romeo
500
What does Lord Capulet say he will build at the end of the play?
A gold statue of Juliet
500
How many Montagues have died by play's end?
2: Romeo, Lady Montague
500
What literary device are the following lines an example of: Friar Lawrence: Come, is the bride ready to go to church?
Dramatic Irony
500
Whose letter proves that Friar Lawrence is telling the truth?
Friar Lawrence
500
What does Mercutio say before he dies that curses both the Capulets and Montagues?
"A plague on both your houses."